Autistic Activism in the Babywearing World
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) As many of you know, I haven’t done a lot of activism-y type stuff since leaving ASAN. Well, a couple of months ago a company called Butterfly...
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Informational Series: An Introduction
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) It’s National Novel Writing Month. I’ve been saying for like 6 or 7 years now that I want to write an autistic book. I don’t plan to...
Society is so Inaccessible..
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) (Quoted with permission) “Its just been difficult accepting that he may have a harder life than others,” was said in a group this morning. You see, I...
5 Years Have Passed
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) For some reason, this year, I’ve reflected on the TPGA dialogues of 2011. And next month, we will mark the 5 year anniversary since they took place....
ASANs Past Abuse and Moving Forward
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) With Ari Ne’eman’s announcement that he will be stepping down at the end of the year today, I knew I was out of time to find a...
Executive Functioning Survey
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) I’m not sure if I’ve said so before, but I’m going to be speaking again this summer at the Autism Society of America conference in New Orleans....
Disabled Parenting Project seeking Autistic Parents
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) IF YOU ARE A PARENT WITH A DISABILITY THE DISABLED PARENTING PROJECT WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU! If you are a parent with a disability, the Disabled...
The Intersection of Failure and Competence
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) Yesterday, I received an email from a teacher. I cried quite a bit because the insinuations were pretty clear. We’re not doing “enough” to support our child....
Remembering My Autistic Self
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) My advocacy… my activism… Well, it’s kind of been non-existent. It’s been bothering me for a while. I keep talking to a few friends about it. And...
Tokenism Hurts Everyone
Home » Archive by category: “Advocacy” (Page 2) It was 5-6 years ago when I got a phone call from someone. They were discussing the merits of “working from the inside” to change an organization....